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Originally Posted by C For Choke
Because Prust is a dime a dozen grinder. The Flames have guys like Jackman and Glencross who can do what Prust does and they do it better.
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1. Glencross doesn't do what Prust does.
2. Jackman is very good at filling a similar role, and I would've loved to have seen a line of Nystrom/Jackman/Prust to bang and crash and draw one or two penalties a game, but for some reason Olli Jokinen was a better use of the 3M it would've cost us to retain those three.
Truthfully, we do have a bunch of guys in the system who fill similar roles to Prust. Though it begs the question why we sign a guy like Jackman and trade for Kostopolous when our farm system is literally comprised of nothing but 4th line grinders with 4 foot ceilings. I'm gonna go with 'our GM is a clown', it seems to be a reasonable answer.